Austin Electric Railway Company $1000 Gold Bond rare-original-maps-and-documents Fort Worth and New Orleans

Fort Worth and New Orleans

to San Diego

to be as follows - “Beginning at the mouth of the Rio Grande

This original Republic of Texas document certified that the named individual was entitled to buy one League and one Labor of Texas land

In the years that followed

Austin Electric Railway Company $1000 Gold Bond rare-original-maps-and-documents Fort Worth and New OrleansFrom 1875 to 1940 trolleys ruled the streets of Austin. The Austin City Railroad Company operated the first streetcars in Austin which were pulled by mules navigating the muddy, dusty and unpaved roads of the rapidly growing Capital of Texas. These early mule drawn trolleys ran mostly along Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown Austin. By 1891 Austin joined the age of exciting innovation with the first electric streetcar. This fast and convenient